Posted on 01/15/2023 8:06:05 AM PST by DoodleBob
It has been three years since the first reported Covid-19 case in Wuhan, China, and more than 6.6 million people have died from this disease since. The United States has the highest number of Covid-19 deaths worldwide, with a sixth of the global toll. But despite this devastation, the U.S. may not be ready for the next pandemic: Experts say they can easily imagine a virus that is as infectious (if not more infectious) than the coronavirus but far more deadly. “If this was our test run, I think we mostly failed,” says Bob Wachter, chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.
So, what went wrong? No one answer can explain everything, and Amy Acton, former director of the Ohio Department of Health, thinks the U.S. needs to establish a 9/11-style commission to study the pandemic response and improve preparedness going forward. With the country seemingly ready to move on, though, nobody can say when this commission will happen, if ever.
In this absence, we reached out to public health experts to distill six lessons we’ve learned from Covid-19 that could help us fight the next pandemic....
We need to rapidly scale up testing...
We need to leverage data more effectively...
We need to seek out a diversity of voices...
We need to continue making big bets on vaccines...
We need to actively crowd out bad information...
We need to infuse public health communication with vulnerability...
(Excerpt) Read more at smithsonianmag.com ...
We need to turn on common sense and turn off commie sense.
How about that one? We need to reject those who tell us we must wear a mask in a restaurant but can take it off as soon as we sit at the table to eat. So a virus takes a coffee break when we are eating? No, it doesn’t, which with rules like that, informs our common sense that mask rules are BS. They are about control, not health.
Sensor misinformation? Oh yah, that is what common sense allows us to do quite well. We can tell it’s misinformation if simple, common sense tells us that what we are being asked to do makes ZERO sense.
Did you miss your sarc tag?
Rule 2, Do not trust bureaucrats. Bureaucrats have a vested interest in prolonging problems, not solving them. Problems are job security. Job security means influence. Influence means moola.
But prolonging problems sure does leave a long trail of bad decisions. Like funding gain of function research to garner support from you international health community buddies.
See Fauci, Anthony.
These people are insane.
Probably not, given that we counted many, many deaths from Covid that were not Covid - think the guy who died in a motorcycle accident but was counted as a Covid death. And why did flu deaths drop to almost zero? Because they were all counted as Covid deaths.
The country with the largest number of Covid deaths is almost certainly China. In the early days, they claimed to have almost zero Covid deaths and only fools believed them.
The best lesson we can learn is to ground all incoming and outgoing all out of country flights. The next best lesson we can learn is to gag all the racism screamers in black robes on the Feral courts making it possible for the foreigners to smuggle the killer diseases into the United States.
Absolutely. They failed us when we needed them the most. Same with the UN's World Health Organization.
Don’t believe what China & the WHO tell you.
The only lesson needed is to know the majority of the people around us will give in to whatever government dictates and also will become willing enforcers of those dictates.
Most people are simply stupid lemmings.
[[They failed us when we needed them the most.]]
Not only that- but they all- most anyways- violated their oath for political reasons, and excoriated and ridiculed anyone that complained about it outside of the profession, and inside the profession, they ostracized and cancelled anyone who spoke up- They put people’s lives behind their political ambitions and $$
The way I read those six “lessons learned”, they are ALL WRONG.
Lesson 1- don’t trust big pharmaceutical companies.
Lesson 2- don’t trust the W.H.O.
Lesson 3- don’t trust the CDC
Lesson 4- don’t trust the Media
Lesson 5- don’t trust the Government
Lesson 6- don’t ever let personal freedom take a back
seat to mandates, ever again...
No kidding. An ignorant article. Damn neat sounds like a big pharma rep at times. This from a person who studies the “history of science”. Baloney.
That question really has to be asked after decades of relative success? Very, very stupid and corrupt people in charge. That's what went, and continues to be, wrong.
So far in my life, I have learned that the CDC doesn’t do much of anything, every event that we think they exist to be ready for seems to take them by total surprise.
Instead of being at the ready and sweeping in with the big plan and solutions and preparations, they are always caught totally flat-footed and with nothing, their first reaction is shock, followed by floundering and misinformation, and public relations misdirection.
Be personally prepared. Do the opposite of what anyone in government tells you.
Who the he!! Is Samar Baja?🤮
Step 1: Round up the Christians and put them in a re-education camp.
All of these entities and people have been scamming us, governments and others for decades for the money.
It is always about 'the money'.
Well worth reading.
I am not taking another shot for anything.
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